T.J. Dillashaw Quotes

As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.

We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

I'm just going to go out and prove that I'm the best guy.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn't play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn't happy.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

In general it is a natural characteristic of human nature everywhere, that whenever a man fails in his first contests he becomes disheartened with respect to what is to come.

I believed in what I was. I didn't believe that would translate into any of the five championships. But I knew that I could affect the game.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I can beat anybody on any given day, and I don't compromise.

There are a lot of great fighters in this sport, but they just don't bring what I bring to the table.